Milk thistle From: Better Nutrition | Date: February 1, 1996| Author: Gormley, James J | Copyright Argus Business, a Division of Argus Inc. Feb 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Milk thistle is "one of the most ancient known herbal medicines," Daniel B. Mowrey, Ph.D., remarks in his 1993 work, Herbal Tonic Therapies.

Called Silybum marianum in Latin, this plant is an annual, or biennial, thistle which flowers from June through September, according to A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants: Eastern and Central North America (1990) by Steven Foster and James A. Duke, Ph.D.

Native to Europe, it today grows in Europe, Africa, Asia, parts of the United States (su...

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